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Rice University geobiologist tapped for Antarctic drilling mission

Team will search for fossil evidence of West Antarctic ice’s response to climate warming Jade Boyd – Apr. 25, 2022 Jeanine Ash (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) HOUSTON – (April 25, 2022) – Rice...

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Houston birdwatcher turned to listening in the pandemic

Jade Boyd 713-348-6778 jadeboyd@rice.edu Recording hobby sheds light on birds that migrate at night over southeast Texas HOUSTON – (April 28, 2022) – When COVID-19 limited Cin-Ty Lee’s options for...

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EPSL: Carbon recycling efficiency in subduction zones constrained by the...

Michael Lara, Rajdeep Dasgupta The extent of CO2 transfer from subducting lithologies to the overlying mantle wedge in general and to the arc magma source regions in particular remains debated. The...

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Journal of Scientific Computing: A Non-perturbative Approach to Computing...

A continuous Galerkin method based approach is presented to compute the seismic normal modes of rotating planets. Special care is taken to separate out the essential spectrum in the presence of a fluid...

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Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars

Jade Boyd – Jul. 25, 2022 Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover HOUSTON – (July 25, 2022) – Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson...

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Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change

Mike Williams, Rice News – Aug. 1, 2022 Rice University survey suggests some aren’t considering dangerous conditions to come A survey of coaches and athletic officials in Texas indicates many of them...

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AGU Advances: Clumped-isotope constraint on upper-tropospheric cooling during...

Asmita Banerjee, Laurence Y. Yeung, Lee T. Murray, Xin Tie, Jessica E. Tierney, and Allegra N. Legrande Abstract Ice cores and other paleotemperature proxies, together with general circulation models,...

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Geophysical Research Letters: Autocorrelation R2 on Mars

Sizhuang Deng and Alan Levander   Plain Language Summary The subsurface structures of Earth are imaged by the detailed analysis of seismic data recorded by thousands of stations deployed on Earth’s...

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Lithos: Correlations between olivine composition and groundmass mineralogy in...

Anton Viljoen, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Andrea Giuliani, Angus Fitzpayne, Gelu Costin   Abstract Sierra Leone contains two Jurassic-aged diamondiferous kimberlite clusters, namely Koidu and Tongo-Tonguma...

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Nature: Scientific Reports: A 5‑km‑thick reservoir with > 380,000 km3 of...

Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Richard A. Hornsey, Gelu Costin & Mauritz van der Merwe   Abstract Several recent studies have argued that large, long-lived and molten magma chambers may not occur...

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